STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One way or another, two species of wild lizards have come to call Staten Island home. A Great Kills resident this week posted a photo on Facebook of a creature on his window sill ...

The Italian wall lizard—a cigar-size Mediterranean reptile with a green back, mottled copper flanks, and a whiplike tail—is more or less the animal you picture when someone says the word “lizard.” ...

In Italy, Thomas Jefferson’s famous “wall” separating church and state is more like a porous membrane, with influences both direct and indirect passing back and forth on virtually a daily basis. Some ...

Lurking in my chopped wood pile, on my cool concrete landing and in the ivy canopy of my backyard in New Hyde Park are dozens of little lizards, Italian wall lizards to be exact. The experience ...

Q. Imagine my surprise when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a quick moving lizard running from under my Globe Blue Spruce shrub into an opening in the rock wall beneath it! It all happened so ...